The following is a list of ways to teach in a gentle manner and was written by Martin Haberman in an article for educational HORIZONS in Spring 1994:
"* Put students ahead of subject matter. Use students' interests.
Generate students' interests. Never go through the meaningless
motion of "covering" material apart from students' involvement
and learning.
"* Never use shame or humiliation.
"* Never scream or harangue.
"* Never get caught in escalating punishments to force compliance.
"* Listen, hear, remember, and use students' ideas.
" Model cooperation with all other adults in the building.educational HORIZONS
"* Respect students' expressions of ideas.
"* Demonstrate empathy for students' expressions of feelings.
"* Identify student pain, sickness, and abuse, and follow up with
people who can help them.
"* Redefine the concept of a hero. Show how people who work
things out are great.
"* Teach students peer mediation. Do not expect students to learn
from failing; repeated failure leads only to more frustration and
giving up.
"* Devise activities at which students can succeed; success engenders further effort.
"* Be a source of constant encouragement by finding good parts of
all students' work.
"• Defuse, sidestep, redirect all challenges to your authority. Never
confront anyone, particularly in public.
"* Use cooperative learning frequently.
"* Create an extended family in the classroom.
"* Use particular subject matters as the way to have "fights": science
"fights" about rival explanations, math "fights" about different
solutions, social studies "fights" about what really happened.
"* Never ask students for private information publicly.
"* Don't try to control by calling on children who are not paying
attention and embarrassing them.
"* Demonstrate respect for parents in the presence of their children
Winnie the Pooh
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Bits of an article written by Martin Haberman
Martin Haberman is a Distinguished Professor in the School of
Education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His seven books
include Star Teachers: The Ideology and Best Practice of Effective
Teachers of Diverse Children and Youth in Poverty. In an article published in Spring 1994 by educational HORIZONS, Martin Haberman states in
Gentle Teaching in a Violent Society,
"The qualities that bring a teacher function to life and make itHe goes on to say,
effective are the unseen teacher beliefs beneath his or her behavior. If,
for example, the teacher's real goal is to manipulate and control students, it will be sensed, understood, and communicated to the students.
If, on the other hand, it is the teacher's intention to empower the students to control their own behavior, this too will be communicated by
the teacher's actions. Teacher acts never impact on students independently of the teacher's real intentions. Students will always know whether
the teacher's goal is to control or empower them."
"There can be no debate about this point. Teachers who start out
intending to dominate poor children or youth are doomed to failure.
Teachers who seek to empower students may become effective if they
believe in and can implement the functions of star teachers."
Winnie the Pooh was create by A.A. Milne and published by Penguin Putnam Publishers. These books are written for the heart of children. The adventures that Christopher Robin creates in his room with his stuffed animals are full of natural playtime moments and it is no question that the situations involved in the dialogues of the characters are not of adults. The humor is childlike. The illustrations are childlike as well.
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